After the Free Gaza Movement’s @freegazaorg account Tweeted on Wednesday that “Zionists operated the concentration camps and helped murder millions of innocent Jews,” there were, understandably, some questions. Questions like, did someone hack the U.S.-based activist group’s official account? Was this some kind of sick joke?

Mind you, if people actually clicked on the link embedded in the post, the urgency of the questions would have intensified. The Tweet led to a disturbing video in which the late Eustace Mullins, a known conspiracy theorist, makes seriously bizarre claims about Zionist Jews conspiring with Hitler.

“[Hitler] aligned with the Zionist Party,” Mullins says, “and the mission of the Nazis was to force the anti-Zionist Jews to accept Zionism —and this is what the concentration camps were about.” It’s an … unorthodox take. Oh, who am I kidding? It’s a completely insane and offensive take. Which is why people were wondering how such hateful and nutty stuff could have appeared under the Free Gaza Movement’s banner.

The answer, it turns out, may be simply that the Free Gaza Movement’s leader is nutty and hateful. Greta Berlin, the founder of the movement, has confirmed to the Post that the group’s Twitter account was not hacked. Nor was the Tweet a (bad) joke.

Rather, Berlin says she sent the offensive link. On purpose. It wasn’t meant to appear on Twitter, though. She meant only to publish it on her private Facebook account, she has explained. So I suppose the Free Gaza Movement founder prefers to be nutty and hateful mainly amongst friends.

Of course, once the Tweet went out to the world, Berlin must have realized that it didn’t cast her or her group in a very positive light. So she sent what seems to have been her best attempt at an apologetic Tweet in response.

“I shared [the link] without watching it,” she wrote. “I am sorry that I just sent it forward without looking at it. It won’t happen again.” Oh dear. The idea that Berlin just blindly posted the link without having peeked at the video is a bit tough to swallow in itself. But even if it were true, what are we to make of the fact that no alarm bells were raised for her by the accompanying text “Zionists operated the concentration camps and helped murder millions of innocent Jews”? I dare say, it’s the kind of thing that would give most rational people pause.

Read between the lines. People have previously accused the Free Gaza Movement of being anti-Semitic, and the response has always been that the group is nothing of the sort, but rather a non-violent humanitarian organization whose raison d’etre is to get aid to Gaza. Don’t confuse the movement’s being anti-Israel with being anti-Semitic, has been the chorus. That was reasonable until Wednesday.

But I think it’s now quite fair to surmise that at the very least, the Free Gaza Movement’s founder is nutty, hateful and, yes, anti-Semitic. And those who support the group should consider long and hard whether the organization represents their own values. Consider this Twitter response from Berlin when Twitter users starting accusing her of hating Jews: “[I] would suggest you concentrate on Israel’s genocidal policies,” she wrote. “I’ve apologized. Have you?”

Really? Supporting the democratic nation of Israel is a far bigger sin than spewing trash that blames Jews for their own genocide? How does that work exactly? Does Berlin really not get that suggesting the Jews exterminated themselves is a big deal — even if (possibly especially if) the message was only intended for like-minded bigots in her Facebook sphere, rather than the population at large?

This is all perhaps a blessing in disguise in that Berlin has inadvertently outed herself for what she is, which will lead to greater scrutiny of the movement she founded. Is it an anti-Semitic action group, or have well-meaning do-gooders been duped into following a women whose views they’d personally find abhorrent? I can’t say what the answer is. But better we all know what we’re really dealing with than continue the charade that Free Gaza’s founder is agnostic on the Jewish people.

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